Medium
Security advisory
Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.9 and 15.10 before 15.10.5 and 16.04 before 16.04.3 are vulnerable to a group's configuration page being editable by any group member even when they didn't have the admin role.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-1000156
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Mahara 15.04 before 15.04.9 and 15.10 before 15.10.5 and 16.04 before 16.04.3 are vulnerable to a group's configuration page being editable by any group member even when they didn't have the admin role.
osv:CVE-2017-1000156
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:02.010398575Z",
"provider": "osv",
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